Egyptian Jihadist and 7th Century Primitives advocate for destruction of Pyramids (my title)

An Egyptian jihad leader, with self-professed links to the Taliban, called for the “destruction of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids in Egypt,” drawing ties between the Egyptian relics and Buddha statues, local media reported this week.

Murgan Salem al-Gohary, an Islamist leader twice-sentenced under former President Hosni Mubarak for advocating violence, called on Muslims to remove such “idols.”

just a question... IF people like him actually start lining up dump trucks and bulldozers and setting explosives can the world physically stop them?

12. "World heritage site" justifies foreign MILITARY intervention?

UNESCO putting a location on some list does not in any way create a legal or moral basis for violating national sovereignty. Guess they better not build a minimall in the Everglades, or North Korea might have a mandate under to invade.

14. That raises a good question. Do the Pyramids belong to Egypt or to everyone? Not just legally

(under current international law) but morally. Should the rest of humanity have a say in whether the Pyramids are destroyed? Aside from the complicated question of what, if anything, the rest of us could do if the Egyptian government actually decided to destroy them, should we have a say? Or does nationalism rule the day. A national government can do whatever it wants within its own borders.

8. never said there were mystical powers.

They could do some damage, but the inner pyramid is granite. The amount of time it would take for anyone to level them would be years and there is not enough man power or money outside of the whole of Egypt that could accomplish the destruction and they don't have it. It's not like in Timbuktu where a bunch of guys with guns break down some doors and wreck stuff. It's not like the Buddhas that were destroyed that could be easily brought down by their own weight. The structure and geometry of the Pyramids would make it almost impossible without massive long term effort. No one would or could pull it off. No one would let it happen considering the time it would take.

10. considering the Khufu pyramid, the inner chambers,

and there are more than one, are deep in the structure not high. The granite is several layers of approx. 5x5x10 meter stones that are between 20 and 40 tons each and overlaying each other and lock jointed like brick masonry. No one really knows for sure how deeply embedded they are. The tolerance of the stone geometry is also extremely accurate so there is no room for faulting which is what causes breakage under pressure. I think what you would get would be a huge cannon blasting out the opening rather than an actual implosion. It may blast out the original door that has been walled in for many thousands of years but is also embedded by granite stone though not as accurately set. I'm sure with enough explosive, you could do about anything but it wouldn't be small bananas like these guys are capable of getting without an awful lot of attention moving it there.

Planting explosives on the outside would do damage but only so deep and I think the inner structure would remain intact.

Again, if the Egyptian government wanted to level the thing or even make it implode, they may be capable; but even that I'm not sure. But terrorists? They don't have that kind of firepower. And remember... there are 3 of them.